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Saturday, August 26, 2006

Recueillement

Listening to 'Nettie Moore' on Dylan's Modern Times and thinking of the line from Baudelaire's Recueillement that Hamm quotes in Endgame. The sleeve calls it 'Nettie Moore' at least, though I suspect, if I'm hearing Dylan's catarrhal drawl rightly, that Nettie is in fact a Nellie.

Baudelaire: Tu réclamais le Soir; il descend; le voici

Dylan: Today I'll stand in faith and raise The voice of praise The sun is strong, I'm standing in the light I wish to God that it were night